@ SimplifiedPrivacy.com
2025-05-21 13:19:58
Q: I'm NOT using Linux.
Why should I use Simplified Privacy's VPN, if I can't use the Linux fingerprint app HydraVeil?
A: First of all, as newer VPN provider, we have less restricted IP addresses, which means you can sign-up and use more services with less hassle. Often Reddit, Google accounts, Google captchas, Cloudflare, Telegram sign-ups, and many other services will give you a far more difficult experience if you're using an IP address that someone else did abusive behavior from.
Second, we focus on smaller 1-country "decentralized" data centers, which offer far greater privacy. They only respond to a court order from their own country. And these providers are far more desperate for customers, which means they care to fight and resist anything that could compromise their reputation.
On the other hand... Mullvad, IVPN, and Proton all resell huge international providers which means that not only are the same providers seeing all traffic across multiple different VPNs, such as both sides of who you talk to on audio calls. But even worse, often the websites themselves will use these same datacenter providers, which is a direct conflict of interest. We outlined this in our past podcasts, articles, and videos. [1]
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Another benefit of Simplified Privacy is the amazing pricing. You can take advantage of very cheap burner billing codes, with no information such as an email requested. For just $1 of XMR or Lightning zap, you get access to a location of your choice, which can be fast, easy, and convenient for many mobile users.
In fact, if you ever wanted to "be invisible", then this burner pricing opens the door for a huge amount of really interesting setups. For example, with other VPNs, they see both your home PC and also what you do on your phone. Then when you travel and use Wifi, they now know literally everything about you, such as who all your friends are.
This ties your personal interactions to your web traffic, which centralizes all knowledge about you. In fact, the VPN you're using now probably knows you better than anyone else in your life. While as with Simplified Privacy, you can effortlessly isolate pieces of your life in under a minute. To have one fast burner code for your PC, and another for the cellphone tower.
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Another interesting setup is to put Simplified Privacy on an open source router. This empowers you to be anonymous to a different provider, but at an affordable price.
Yet another idea, is you could give a VPN code to family or friends with crappy opsec, so you're not on the same account as someone using Big-Tech NSA-friendly devices that see the code.
And finally, Simplified Privacy is more than just an IP address you route traffic through. But it's an educational agora community, of primarily volunteers who donate their time and energy. Without our contributors, such as coding, writing/creating content, and answering questions in chats, this organization would simply not exist.
While other VPNs such as Proton now come under pressure from Switzerland's government to give up data. Simplified Privacy is developing alternative parallel economy legal systems, such as PGP-binding contracts with XMRBazaar. With no bank accounts, we exist primarily on Nostr, and in your mind.
To quote my hero John Lennon,
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone"
[1] https://docs.simplifiedprivacy.com/en/why-how/myth-of-mullvad